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    #ExecutiveTakeover 2023: Climate Crisis

    Graphic with orange background. Image of climate protester. Text on blue background to the right reads: 'Executive Takeover. Climate Crisis.' White globe at bottom and briefcase and paper folder at the top.

    At the Annual Children and Young People’s Executive Takeover 2023, Tamsin Gold MSYP and Alasdair Marshall MSYP gave a…

    #Climate Change, #Climate Crisis, #Executive Takeover, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    Why young people need to learn about trade unions

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    By Finlay McIlwraith MSYP and Fraser Jarvis MSYP What does a trade union do? It’s OK if you…

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    Equal marriage 10 years on: Reflecting on the past and hoping for the future

    MSYPs and staff at Pride

    This month is LGBT History Month – I never learned about the Stonewall riots in school. I never learned that…

    #Equality, #Human Rights, #LGBT, #Scottish Youth Parliament
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    It’s Giving Evidence: Our Trip to London

    MSYPs and the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee. Back row: Alan Brown MP, David Duguid MP, Wendy Chamberlain MP, Pete Wishart MP, Douglas Ross MP and Michael Shanks MP. Front row: Mollie McGoran, Ellie Craig MSYP, Olivia Brown MSYP, Abbie Wright and Ewan Knight MSYP.

    Last week, on Monday 5th February, several of SYP’s representatives – Mollie McGoran, Ellie Craig, Olivia Brown, Abbie Wright and…

    #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UK Parliament, #UNCRC
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    Year in Review 2023

    MSYPs in Orkney at SYP's 79th National Sitting with their hands in the air

    Members of the Scottish Youth Parliament have been busy throughout 2023 – we’ve held National Sittings in Orkney and Aberdeen,…

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    UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill passed by the Scottish Parliament

    Mollie McGoran MSYP speaking on stage at SYP77

    Today, MSPs in the Scottish Parliament voted to pass the UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill following years of campaigning by children,…

    #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill – Policy Briefing

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    SYP sent the Policy Briefing below to Members of the Scottish Parliament ahead of the UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill reconsideration…

    #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    UNCRC Incorporation (Scotland) Bill – Debate Day

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    Today, The Scottish Parliament will hold a debate to reconsider United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation)…

    #Human Rights, #Scottish Youth Parliament, #UNCRC
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    #SYPRepresents: Our workshop on care experienced young people and young carers

    Charles Fernando MSYP and Max Green MSYP organising their posters off staff at SYP79

    By Charles Fernando, Who Cares? Scotland MSYP and Max Green, Carers Trust Scotland MSYP Earlier this year at…

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    The UK is being accused of being a Climate Criminal, here’s why we must not be found guilty…

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    How did we get here?On Wednesday, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) announced that the UK’s largest untapped oil field…

    #Campaigns, #Climate Change, #Climate Crisis, #Environment
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